Peppa Pig and Muddy Puddles

Grace found on the way home today her first muddy puddle. She walked into the middle of it pointed and said "water".
No muddy puddle just like Peppa said I. Mistake number 1. Grace then proceeded to be Peppa Pig and splash in said muddy puddle. As she was wearing her wellies not a problem until she decided with much arm waving that she needed to wash her hands. As I started to dig out the wet wipes from the tardis that is the bottom of the pram Grace had jumped the gun and was washing her hands in the muddy puddle. Grace then noticed me and obviously thought I know good idea lets sit down in the muddy puddle! I got to her just before her little bum touched the water. No harm done. Hands were wiped clean and puddle now nearly empty was left for the next little Peppa wannabe.

Digestive Biscuits I mean Hobnobs

Yesterday on a whim attempted to bake Digestive biscuits. But due to not having all the ingredients on the recipe they turned out more like Hobnobs. Very good all the same.

150 g (5½ oz) plain wholemeal flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
30 g (1 oz) medium oatmeal
20 g (¼ oz) bran
100 g (3½ oz) dark muscovado sugar
50 g (1¼ oz) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
4 tbsp milk, or as needed

now the bran I did not have, so I upped the oats up by 20g.
Basically you mix all the dry ingredients then mix in the wet to make a dough. Roll in to a log wrap in greaseproof and put in to the fridge for half an hour. I put it in the freezer as it seemed a bit wet.

Take out the roll slice it up and bung in the oven for 12 min on 190.

Hey Presto Digestive/hobnob biscuits.

Sorry there is no pictures of the results but they did not last long at all, what can I say, not a lot mouth full!

Green Green Green

Today is our fortnightly recycling collection day. We are given a multitude of different coloured bags for different types of waste.
Pink for clothing, shoes and textiles
Green for glass bottles and jars
Blue for newspapers, magazines, catalogues, brochures, junkmail. stationery and telephone directories
and Clear for food and drink cans empty aerosols, plastic bottles and aluminium foil.

This service is provided by Cornwall County Council. Well done to them I say. Our household weekly collection on a Monday has been reduced from 6 or 7 black binliners to just 3 per week.

I wonder though how long it will last? At our last property the same council refused to take glass one week. The reason
Health and Safety
. Those dreaded three little words.

After that incident we refused to recycle as we seemed to be wasting our time. We had been provided with all the above bags but still they refused to collect. So far here we have not had the same problem. I have put a little bit of wood out just to see if they take it. It is able to be recycled, it would fit in the van they send but somehow I doubt they will take it and will say you have to got to the waste disposal centre in Saltash. Which would be all well and good if I had a car but I do not. Then they will say ring this number and the council will come out and pick it up whilst charging me for the privalige. We shall see. If they do not take it then bonfire night or the local building site skip it is then!

One Week Holiday - 12 Days Off - What to Do?

Finally a week off work. The beauty of my shift is that when I get a week off it feels like two due to the nature of the shifts.
Great now what to do? Unfortuneately Karen is unable to take time off with me apart from the weekend, so am left to my own devices (and the Girls).
First off definates- Saturday is the 90th Birthday of the Royal British Legion, and Callington Branch is holding a fundraising "Egg Banjo/Coffee morning" with various fundraising stalls at Callington town hall which I have volunteered for. Note dig out regimental blazer and tie.
My mate Dave's tattooist is holding a tattoo party all day Sat so after fundraiser, will get my last tattoo touched up, slight error on the original, long story but it will not take much to correct.

Apart from that nothing planned, usual household chores, grass cutting etc and time out with the Girls. I am sure that I will fill the other 11 days and that they will pass much too quickly.

From the mouths of Babes

Can you remember those silly playground arguments...My dad is bigger than your dad etc.Well it says something about the health of the country in Modern Britain today when I was returning from the park with the girls and we passed a group of small boys squabbling as they do. At this point the classic line was heard Well MY Mum is Fatter than Your Mum.
I was quietly laughing to myself all the way home. But then I realised later that maybe that it was not so funny. The media and Govt. keep banging on at us about how much more obese the nation is today, the importance of diet and exercise blah blah blah.To be fair I generally ignore them as luckily am naturally slim. The problem is that people do not care anymore. A group of small boys consider it quite normal and are even quite proud of the fact that "my mum is fatter than your mum"

Toms

OK they are only young tomatoes, but they are on the weakest of the 3 plants and the only plant outside the Greenhouse. The other two are not showing any as yet, but plenty of flowering so fingers crossed. One must also bear in mind that for the past 3 years I have tried in vain to grow tomatoes but to no avail, so things are looking good. Maybe it is the change of location, the last garden was full of Japanese Knotweed, and blight seemed to hit quite regularly.

So far so good and am quite chuffed really.

Home Made Pasta

Just made my first attempt at pasta. The hardest bit was working out how to dry the stuff out.

Improvisation came into play.

The result...

Impressed even myself, not bad for 5 Oz of flour, 1 egg, a drop of water and some patience. Tasted lovely, even Grace finished her plate. Cannot wait to try it out on Karen. I have even saved some for dry storage, but that takes 3 more hours of drying apparently. That is if I can stop myself from eating it first that is.

Red Sky in the Morning Shepherds Warning?

On waking this morning I felt great. Karen had been shopping at the weekend and bought new orthopedic pillows to replace the tired old things that we had. Who would have thought that they would have made that much of a difference. A really good nights sleep was needed and boy did I get a good night.

Orthopedic Pillows – Memory Foam

The newer orthopedic pillows are made with memory foam, which takes the form of the body that lies on it, so it adjusts to the body shape, size, and position. You will mostly find rectangular orthopedic pillows although they can be found in wedge and contoured shapes.

Now when I got up they Sky was a beautiful red sky, a lovely photo should have been taken but I did not even think to pick up the camera as was too busy admiring the view. It does not matter what the old proverb says about red sky in the morning as today it was just beautiful and much appreciated.

Dates messed up

Karen has gone into Plymouth shopping with the girls today. As I am working tonight and I had an appointment at Sheryll Murray MP's surgery at 1230 I stayed behind.
Wrong, I got the date wrong and missed my appointment by a week. Apologies have been sent but I still feel like an idiot waiting around outside the town hall for a surgery that was last week.

On a brighter note, took some gorgeous photos of the girls on Thursday, which I must say am quite proud of.

What can I say but did you ever see such sweet little girls.

BBC News - Parachute Regiment soldiers face 'special payment' cut

On the 16th of this month David Cameron Prime Minister said

The military would get the recognition it deserves

,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13402762 refers.


and then today this...



BBC News - Parachute Regiment soldiers face 'special payment' cut


It says a lot about politicians and their so called word no matter what colour flag they are flying Blue, Red, or Orange.

Disgusting